Meet the browser: Firefox Next

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When did FF release Metro version ? (Mouse scrolling doesn't work. need to middle click and autoscroll)

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those tabs made me dry reach, i am glad they aren't taking the ability to change them via themes out otherwise IMO they would lose a lot of long time users myself included

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those tabs made me dry reach, i am glad they aren't taking the ability to change them via themes out otherwise IMO they would lose a lot of long time users myself included

They are hidden as default, I just enabled them for the screenshot

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The 16b5 is running MUCH FASTER than any browser I have installed. The difference from the previous version is gaudy!

Yeah, I've switched back to firefox on my desktop computer, much more responsive now. Still fairly laggy UI at times on my laptop though.

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Today's nightly is filled with graphical glitches all around firefox window, and even outside it we firefox is focuse. :(

Are you running Catalyst 12.9 beta? If so uninstall it and install 12.8 release. Fixed it for me.

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Are you running Catalyst 12.9 beta? If so uninstall it and install 12.8 release. Fixed it for me.

No, i was using version 12.6 and now i'm updating to v12.8. Anyway those glitches disappeared with yesterday's nightly but new ones appeared (bad rendering of text in chrome)

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html5test scores for firefox 16 final and 17 beta 1:

html5test firefox 16: 363

html5test beta firefox 16: 372

html5test firefox 17: 388

html5test beta firefox 17: 392

So there's a 15 and a 2 point advantage with firefox 17 beta 1 over firefox 16. Nice to have so many html5 additions :)

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Where can I download 17 Beta 1? It's not available via https://www.mozilla....x/channel/#beta

Direct link please. Thanks!

It's not officially out yet, but you can download the beta 17 candidate build from the ftp: http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/17.0b1-candidates/build1/

Note this isn't the final release of 17 b1, its a release candidate.

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